Mike, I was there in November 1969; our dorm was brand new and they hadn't yet solved the problem where whenever a toilet was flushed, the shower water went to red hot instantaneously. I still remember the screams.

And I hate tea.

Mike, when I was doing basic training at San Antonio, I learned three things about Texas:

1. The Alamo is about the size of a 7-11 store.
2. Old men play dominoes all over the place.
3. The jackrabbits really ARE as big as horses.

Got my first camera for Christmas when I was about 12, in the late 1950s.

Bought my first 35mm (a Petri 35) when I was in the Air Force. And my first SLR (Yashica TL-Electro-X) soon after.

Then I moved to a Yashicamat 124G twin-lens reflex and went into the wedding business. I shot a few dozen weddings in the 1970s, also did some newspaper photography and some passport photos. Later wrote a lot of magazine articles and shot my own photos to go with them.

I now do most of my shooting with the pocket camera I always carry; currently a Canon pc1589 (16 megapixels). My focus is more on humorous or interesting shots rather than on technically perfect photographs.

Here's a sample: a squirrel trying to keep cool on the hottest day of the year.

Hot squirrel

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